Revamped Sparks Looking Ahead to Star-Studded WNBA Draft

With a fistful of top picks, the team anticipates a return to glory after missing the playoffs the past three seasons.
Revamped Sparks Looking Ahead to Star-Studded WNBA Draft
Iowa guard Caitlin Clark (22) drives on Northwestern guard Maggie Pina during a game in Evanston, Ill., on Jan. 31, 2024. Clark heads this year's list of top college prospects. Nam Y. Huh/AP Photo
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The ability to add two of the nation’s top four collegiate players in the same draft is a rare luxury that would excite any professional sports franchise.

The Los Angeles Sparks of the WNBA are in exactly that enviable position after a flurry of transactions that included acquiring the fourth overall selection in this year’s draft, as well as veteran guard Kia Nurse, in a Jan. 31 trade that sent the team’s 2026 first-round pick to the Seattle Storm.

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Dan Wood is a community sports reporter based in Orange County, California. He has covered sports professionally for some 43 years, spending nearly three decades in the newspaper industry and 14 years in radio. He is an avid music fan, with a strong lean toward country and classic rock.
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